Spain foreign minister José Manuel García-Margallo on Wednesday said Spain would would neither send troops to Iraq nor participate in aerial attacks against the terrorist group Isis.

Military jets from the United States, the United Kingdom, France and a number of Arabic countries have been carrying out targeted attacks against Isis in Iraq, with the Americans also bombing Isis targets within Syria.

On Wednesday France said it was ramping up its involvement in the conflict, without giving more detail.

But Spain's involvement in an international effort to fight the group would be limited to the "use of bases, logistical support, supply of lethal weapons, information gathering, and in-flight refuelling of aircraft", Margallo told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser.

During the interview, García-Margallo also stressed the 2003 war in Iraq hadn't played a role in Spain's decision not to join the combat in Iraq.

"The one thing has nothing to do with the other," the foreign minister said, stressing the Iraqi government had called for international support on this occasion.

Spain's involvement in the Second Gulf War was hugely contentious domestically and had a major bearing on the results of the country's 2004 general elections.

A terrorist attack in Madrid on March 11th, 2004, just three days before Spanish voters went to the polls, killed a total of 191 people on two packed commuter trains.

Spain's conservative Popular Party government of the time initially blamed the attacks on the Basque separatist group ETA. But many Spaniards believed they were trying to deflect attention from a possible link between the bombings and Spain's involvement in the Iraq War.

The Popular Party lost the general elections and a socialist PSOE government took power, subsequently withdrawing Spanish troops from Iraq.

Spain recently announced it was sending 130 Spanish soldiers to the southern Turkish city of Adana to guarantee the safety of the local population against "a possible air attack or ballistic missiles from its southern border" with Syria.